Qiao Youhua personally drove a military truck, with political commissar Guo Meng in the passenger seat, and the back compartment was crowded with women who had been mobilized to harvest crops.

As for the officers and men of the guard company, the reconnaissance company, the artillery battalion, and the three separate recruit battalions, they all marched on foot.

Due to the limited number of vehicles, more people could only follow the officers and soldiers on foot, but everyone's face was full of excitement, because this time to participate in the grain harvesting operation, not only can every household get enough rations for the winter according to the capitation, but the Dragon's Tooth Task Force also gives subsidies according to the salary of one ocean per person per day.

In recent years, the purchasing power of the silver dollar has become a recognized hard currency with the continuous depreciation of fiat currency, so it is still very attractive to the people.

I can get food again, and I can get wages, such a good thing, the people who have done farm work all their lives can't find it with lanterns, so they are all full of interest, and they can't wait for the whole family to go into battle, and the enthusiasm is very high.

In Qiao Youhua's view, anyway, he got the money from the British who were equal to empty gloves and white wolves, so that the people could help them tide over the difficulties, life was not so difficult, and it could improve their enthusiasm and support for the Eighth Route Army, so why not kill two birds with one stone?

Besides, these silver dollars are still under the rule of their own base areas for the time being, and with the character of the people who are afraid of living a poor life, they will not be willing to spend them unless they have to, so there is no need to worry about circulating them for the time being.

As long as the base area survives the encirclement and suppression of the Japanese army again, even if it completely gains a foothold here, then Qiao Youhua will have to go all out to develop all kinds of industries and military industries, and the commercial transactions in the base area will also be controlled in his own hands.

At that time, the circulation of money would only make the base area as good as it was, and the people had money to buy whatever they needed, but in this war-torn era, where did the daily necessities come from?

Of course, it is a businessman who has a relationship with Qiao Youhua, or simply the Dragon Tooth Task Force buys the goods by itself, or produces and manufactures them.

Qiao Youhua now has great ambitions, he wants to comprehensively develop the anti-Japanese base areas under his rule, promote the development of the whole area with points, and finally promote China to get rid of poverty and backwardness, and become rich and strong as soon as possible.

If we want to get to this point, it is definitely not possible to develop a certain item in a pure way, and it is necessary to develop the commercial economy, industry, and military industry in an all-round way.

While Qiao Youhua and the others were still on the march, Liu Jianhua and Zheng Yunshan each led a guard company, a platoon of the reconnaissance company, and soldiers No. 60 or 70 had already taken the lead in arriving at the junction of Pingshan and Lingshou County and Zhengding County.

According to the plan drawn up in advance by the regimental headquarters, the two units were to act separately in this regard.

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"Yunshan, be careful." Liu Jianhua said to Zheng Yunshan with a serious face.

"Got it, Brother Liu, so are you, be careful." Zheng Yunshan nodded.

Liu Jianhua waved his hand at him, Zheng Yunshan led his subordinates along a field path towards Pingshan County, Liu Jianhua watched them disappear into a sea of golden sorghum that could be harvested, and then withdrew his gaze and said to the more than seventy scouts behind him: "Let's go!" ”

Qiao Youhua raised the combat effectiveness of the two regiments directly under the Guard Company and the Reconnaissance Company, and reequipped them with American-style equipment more than a month ago, and now the platoons of the Reconnaissance Company and the Guard Company, except for the necessary riflemen and light machine gunners, the rest of the soldiers are all equipped with American-style Thomson submachine guns.

The assault firepower has been greatly improved, and of course, the difficulty of ammunition consumption and supply has also increased, but fortunately, now that Qiao Youhua and the British are on the line, and they have a large amount of money, they are not afraid that they will not be able to replenish ammunition.

Of course, this method of relying on purchase cannot maintain the supply and consumption of large troops, and sooner or later Qiao Youhua will still establish his own submachine gun and supporting ammunition production line.

Even if it is possible to temporarily mass-produce the relatively backward MP18 submachine gun, it is better than nothing.

After Liu Jianhua and Zheng Yunshan separated, he led the reconnaissance platoon to quickly advance towards the hinterland of Lingshou County, and there were ripe sorghum fields everywhere along the way.

Liu Jianhua and the officers and soldiers couldn't help but sigh that it would be a pity if so much grain fell into the hands of devils and traitors, so the soldiers couldn't help but speed up their feet.

Half an hour later, the vanguard group in front of him suddenly came to warn him of stopping his advance, Liu Jianhua immediately raised his hand, and more than 60 soldiers behind him stopped abruptly and quickly dispersed on the spot, one by one holding submachine guns, ready for battle.

Liu Jianhua led two soldiers equipped with Thomson submachine guns and walked up quietly, and the three members of the vanguard team were hiding behind several big trees in a field at the moment.

"What's the situation?" Liu Jianhua asked in a low voice.

One of them quietly pointed ahead and said, "There seems to be someone harvesting crops in that sorghum field ahead!" ”

Liu Jianhua immediately held the telescope and looked ahead.

I saw that in the sorghum field in front of me, the figure was faintly shaking, and everywhere I went, the sorghum more than one person high fell down one after another, changed places, and went to see again.

Several Japanese military trucks were found to be two side three-wheeled motorcycles, and on the side of one of the motorcycles was a devil sentry with a Type 38 rifle on his back.

It turned out that this was part of the Japanese garrison brigade and the puppet army in Lingshou County, covering the big families in the city to organize the harvest of grain.

Because the big families promised benefits, the Japanese puppet army in Lingshou County went out one after another to escort the landlords and traitors.

In fact, the devils' wishful thinking is that anyway, the imperial army is not strong enough and there are not enough manpower, and these landlords and squires are willing to contribute, so it would be better.

As long as the grain is collected in Lingshou County, it is not the same as entering the granary of the imperial army, the imperial army can requisition whenever it wants, and the landlords and squires help keep it, and even the wages are saved.

These **** landlords and old fortunes don't know that the devils have treated them as fat sheep in captivity, when they need it, they will cut it with a knife, and then pick wool, eat mutton, and rob their homes to rob food and money.

If there are several beautiful concubines in the family, there may be a woman snatching incident.

Liu Jianhua carefully observed the surrounding environment and found that there were only one or two hundred devils and puppet soldiers in the vicinity, of which there was only one team of devils, and the others were two devils.

Moreover, the troops were very scattered, and they were all stationed in various fields to stand guard.

After Liu Jianhua came back, a squad leader asked in a low voice: "Company commander, the devil and the second devil have begun to harvest grain, what should we do?" ”

Liu Jianhua turned his face sideways and said: "The food must not be snatched away by the devils and traitors, and beat ~ him ~ mother!" ”

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